Ganem

surname · Latin script

Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of ganir

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ganem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 72K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 290K
  • UYUruguay1 in 34K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

730 people

Sources
81 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

third-person plural present indicative of ganir

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ganem counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ganem is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil7301 in 290K730Ganem81
AR Argentina6341 in 72K634Ganem43
US United States6321 in 526K689Ganem60
FR France≈470 est.≈1 in 144K64—1
CO Colombia≈330 est.≈1 in 149K—Ganem35
IL Israel≈250 est.≈1 in 35K—Ganem7
UY Uruguay1011 in 34K101Ganem8

730 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ganem is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Ghana

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gáñëm, Gàném, Ganęm, Ğanem

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gánem

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Ğanem

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, Indonesia

    Also written Gāñëm

  • Russian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Syria, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Ганем, Гханем, Ghanem, Ğanem, Gánem

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel

    Also written Ğanem

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Halil Ganem, b. 1847Claude Morgan, b. 1947Edy Ganem, b. 1983

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Ganem
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—730#12,163
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020689#35,228
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—634—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010632#35,582
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000501#41,060
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—101—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198175—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199164—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197156—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196149—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195140—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19416—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ganem mean, and where does it come from?
third-person plural present indicative of ganir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Ganem have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 730 people named Ganem, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ganem.
Where is Ganem most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ganem is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ganem?
In Brazil, the national register counted 730 people named Ganem, about 1 in 290 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ganem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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